RICHMOND, Virginia, Jan. 4 (TNSres) -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * VCU team from Virtual Curation Laboratory provides 3-D digital model of skull of man who died in the 1830s and then received unusual burial. * * * Archaeologists in 1990 excavated a 19th-century grave in Griswold, Connecticut, in which the remains were arranged to form a skull and crossbones, indicating that the middle-aged man was thought to be a vampire, possibly because he had tubercul more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 5 (TNSper) -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Jan. 4, 2023: Attorney General William Tong announced today he has appointed Eileen Meskill to serve as Deputy Attorney General, succeeding Margaret Q. Chapple who will retire this month after more than 30 years of service to the Office of the Attorney General, including four as Deputy Attorney General. "I am very excited to appoint Eileen Meskill as the next Deputy Attorney more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 5 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Jan. 5, 2023: In a brief filed today with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, Attorney General William Tong urged regulators to reject an "excessive and unwarranted" request by Eversource-owned Aquarion Water Company to raise its rates by 27 percent over three years. Eversource acquired Aquarion in 2017. This is the first rate case filed by Aquarion since that acquisition, alt more PR

NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut, Jan. 4 (TNSper) -- Central Connecticut State University issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont announced on Dec. 30 the appointment of Greg Daniels '96 as executive director of the State Contracting Standards Board, the entity responsible for oversight related to all matters associated with state procurement. The State Contracting Standards Board consists of 14 voting members who are appointed by the governor and the leaders of the General Assembly. Th more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 7 -- Connecticut State Colleges and Universities issued the following news release on Jan. 6, 2023: Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) President Terrence Cheng today announced the timely and successful completion of FY22 financial closure, noting that external auditors issued clean, unmodified opinions, identifying no audit adjustments, material weaknesses, or control deficiencies for Connecticut Community Colleges, Connecticut State Universities, and more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following statement on Jan. 4, 2023: * * * 2023 DGA Chair and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy released the following statement on Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont's inauguration. "Congratulations to Gov. Ned Lamont on his inauguration to a second term. "In his first term, Gov. Lamont delivered real results for Connecticut families -- balancing the state's budget, bringing businesses back to the state, protecting reproductive freedo more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: In the states this week, local news highlighted a stark contrast: President Biden and Democrats getting things done for working families, while Republicans are embroiled in a messy intra party feud. President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is making a real impact on communities across the country, from Kentucky to Connecticut: In Kentucky: * Courier Journal: 'We can work together': Biden, McConn more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, Jan. 5 (TNSjou) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issuzed the following news: * * * Congestive heart failure patients showed a 24% readmission rate * * * A study by Eastern researchers of hospital readmission rates for patients with congestive heart failure shows that longer initial hospital stays reduce the risk of readmission, a finding that could help the healthcare industry with cost containment and quality of care. Fatma Pakdil, professor of management,  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 7 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: One in 10 nursing homes in U.S. coastal regions is at risk of exposure to severe hurricane-related flooding. But while nursing home residents are disproportionately more susceptible than the general population to injury and death due to environmental disasters, a significant number of at-risk facilities may be inadequately prepared for hurricane-related inundation in certain coastal regions, a new Yale more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 5 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Paxton has announced the entry of a $43.3 million dollar settlement against JUUL Labs in Texas state court. The settlement is part of a $434.9 million resolution between JUUL Labs and 33 states and territories that resolves a two-year bipartisan investigation into the e-cigarette manufacturer's marketing and sales practices. The investigation, initially launched in 2020, was led by At more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 6 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Results from a recent Yale Cancer Center Phase II trial studying ixabepilone and bevacizumab vs ixabepilone alone in platinum resistant ovarian cancer patients have led to the combination added as a Category 2B recommended regimen in Ovarian Cancer (Version 1.2023) of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Guidelines(R). The results of the study, which was authored by Alessandro Santin, MD,  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 6 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine's December 2022 issue on Antimicrobial Resistance has been published on PubMed Central. This focus issue features articles on the emerging global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR): we present articles that discuss the status of AMR and possible therapeutic solutions. Highlights of the issue include a case report by researchers from Yale's Department of Ecolo more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 4 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: On December 17, 2022, a case study written by Christopher Hong, MD, a chief resident at Yale School of Medicine, and Bulent Omay, MD, surgical director of the Yale Pituitary Program, appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. The case study highlighted a complex case of an 81-year-old patient with pituitary apoplexy. Pituitary apoplexy is a serious condition in which a pituitary tumor spontaneou more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 6 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: A new open-source software package called cancereffectsizeR developed by the Townsend Lab greatly improves the ability of data scientists and clinical analysts to pinpoint specific genetic mutations that drive cancer. Created in the widely available R platform, the software calculates the effect sizes of single-nucleotide variants in cancer and quantifies their effect on cancer cell proliferation as w more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 6 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * An experimental dementia drug slowed clinical decline in people with early-stage Alzheimer's disease in a phase 3 clinical trial, a new study shows. * * * The investigational drug lecanemab slowed clinical decline in participants with early-stage Alzheimer's disease by 27% after 18 months of treatment compared with participants who received a placebo, a phase 3 clinical trial has reported. The results more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 7 (TNSjou) -- Yale University School of Public Health issued the following news: A new open-source software package called cancereffectsizeR developed by the Townsend Lab greatly improves the ability of data scientists and clinical analysts to pinpoint specific genetic mutations that drive cancer. Created in the widely available R platform, the software calculates the effect sizes of single-nucleotide variants in cancer and quantifies their effect on cancer cell pr more PR